Born in 1971, In Khilla GhanPur Village of erstwhile MahabubNagar district of Telangana. Comes from a family of a government school master, did his schooling in various Government schools across the district. He took interest in social and political activities from his high school days. As he looks back he opines the public funded common schooling system and the plural milieu of those schools contributed substantially for his mental makeup.
After acquiring Bachelor’s Degree in Arts, went on to do his Masters in Political Science in Osmania University, Hyderabad. Interactions with youthful minds from varied social economic and academic backgrounds and political perspectives provided insights to him. He finished his bachelors in Law and education form the same university. Later became a UGC Research Fellow in Political Science, and did his Ph.D in the area of Democratic Decentralization and Rural Development. He also holds bachelor degree in education, bachelors and masters in law.
His formal and informal leanings in the University and elsewhere paved way for him to venture in to academics and activism. This journey prompted him to blend pragmatism with passion. In the later years this learning helped him to a part of Government and Non-Government sponsored endeavors in Rural Development and Democratic Governance. Work in the field of development helped him to have an insight in the travails, grit, and grief of the underprivileged in the Rural, Adivasi and Urban Locations.
These experiences made him to realize the India in three silos, namely the Urban, Rural and the Indigenous. Much of his firsthand knowledge about, Women, Dalits, Adivasis, Occupation Castes and their ilk came from the work in the development sector. This awareness also made him to reject and work against all kinds of birth based discriminations in whatever humble way possible. Work in the field made him to move beyond books and allowed to acquire multidimensional perspectives of life and its plurality and work towards understanding the connect between social theory and practice in social sciences .
He has more than a decade and a half experience in teaching learning process. He is a writer and a translator and has several papers and books to his credit. He engaged with the Telangana question since the early 1990’s. Later wrote a critical monograph on Telangana named “VIphala Andhraprdesh’’ ( Failed Andhra Pradesh) in 2010, which explores in to subterranean fault lines underneath building of linguistic based “Telugu Nationalism” from early twentieth century and its contemporary consequences.